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time, as is evident from what our conference 
with them, produced afterward at Lancafter 
begun the 2 2d of June 1744. 
This council was followed by a feaft, after 
4 o’clock we all dined together upon 4 great 
kettles of Indian corn foop, which we foon 
emptied, and then every chief retired to his 
home. 
31//, In the morning, as foon as light, I 
walked out to look at our horfes as ufual, 
and clofe by a cabin fpied a knife almoft 
covered with grafs ; I fuppofed it loft, but 
the Indians being not yet ftiring let it lie : 
a little after fun-rife I walked there again, 
and the Squaw being at the door, fhewed 
her where it lay, at which fhe feemed ex- 
ceeding pleafed, and picked it up immediately. 
As I came back to our cabin, I fpy’d 2 Indian 
girls at play with beans, which they threw 
from one to the other on a match coat fpread 
between them ; as they were behind our ca- 
bin, I turned to fee how they play’d, but 
they feemed much out of countenance, and 
run off in an inftant : I obferved that the In- 
dian women are generally very modeft. 
About noon the council fat a 2 d time, and 
our interpreter had his audience, being charged 
by the governor with the conduct of the treaty. 
Conrad Weifar had engaged the Indian fpeaker 
to open the affair to the chiefs affembled in 
council ; he made a fpeech near half an hour, 
I 2 and 
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